Hat-fastener.



No. 788,197. PATENTED APR. 25, 1905. H. S. & G. H. FAIRBANKS.

HAT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.19, 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 25, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE S. FAIRBANKS AND CHARLES H. FAIRBANKS, OF RACINE, WISCONSIN.

HAT-FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,197,dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed December 19, 1904. Serial No. 237,4:95.

To (all whom, it nuty concern:

Be it known that we, HORACE S. FAIRBANKS and CHARLES H. FAIRBANKS,citizens of the United States, and residents of Racine, in the county ofRacine and State of \Nisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Hat-Fasteners; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention relates to devices for securing ladies hats to the headsof the wearers in place of using hat-pins; and it consists in certainpeculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fullyset forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings andSubsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our said device.Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of a portion thereof. Figs. 3 and 4are detail sectional views taken, respectively, on the planes indicatedby the lines 3 3 and 4 4 in Fig. 2.

Referring by numerals to the said drawings, 1 designates a plate ofsheet metal whose upper edge is turned up to form a three-part flange 23 4, the parts thereof being separated by grooves. The plate is furtherformed with two upturned lips 5 6, cut and bent up from said plate andhaving holes therethrough, and with an upturned catch 7, likewise cutand bent from said plate, ad jacentto one end thereof, while said platenear its other end is formed with a hole 8 and an edge notch 9, throughwhich hole 8 an ordinary pin 10 is inserted and then bent around theplate, so as to extend longitudinally. from the notch 9 and snap underthe catch 7, all as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and i.

The fastening device proper is formed of a piece of spring-wire bent toform a head 11 and two diverging curved legs 12 12. In assembling ourdevice these legs are first inserted in the grooves between the parts 2and 3 and 3 and 4 of the described plate-flange 2 3 at and then throughthe holes in the lips 5 6. These holes are farther apart than are thegrooves in the plate-flange, and so as the legs are pressed fartherthrough the said grooves and holes the free ends of said legs becomefarther separated. These ends are flattened into diamond-shaped points13 13, which will readily penetrate the hair of the wearer, but beingwider than the legs will prevent their accidental withdrawal from theplate 1.

- In use the device is pinned to the lining of the hat on the edge ofthe crown and brim, two of these devices being used, one opposite theother. The legs curve into the crown of the hat and the hair of thewearer, and when the hat is to be removed a slight pull on the head 11will serve to quickly withdraw the legs 12 12 until the ends 13 13 arebetween the lips 5 6 and the edge of the plate 1, and thus protected itwill be impossible for said ends to become entangled with the wearershair, besides which the diamond shape of said ends insure a smoothwithdrawal, as well as advance free from catching in the use of thedevice.

Another advantage of our fastener lies in the adaptability of use of anordinary pin, as shown at 10, thus doing away with the annoyance andliability of loss of the ordinary soldered pin, and if the fastening-pinbecomes lost another can be bent to place in a mo-- ment ready for usewithout the trouble and delay incident to replacing same through ajewelry-shop, as usual with similar devices.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hat-fastener, the combination with a plate having a groovedflange, perforated lips and a bent catch struck up therefrom, and formedwith a notched end and a hole adjacent ther to, of a pin passed throughsaid hole and bent around said notch and under said catch, and aspring-wire formed into a head and divergent legs passed through thegrooves in the plate-flange and the perforations in the said lips.

2. In a hat-fastener, the combination with a plate adapted to be securedto the edge of the crown and brim of a hat, and formed with a groovedflange and struck-up perforated lips, of a spring-wire formed into ahead and divergent legs passed through the grooves in the oonnty'ofRacine and State of Wisconsin, the plate-flange and the perforations inthe in the presence of two Witnesses.

said lips, and having the ends of said legs flat- HORACE S. FAIRBANKS.tened into diamond-shaped points of greater 7 CHARLES H. FAIRBANKS. 5width than that of said legs. Witnesses:

In testimony that we claim the foregoing ANDREW DIETRIGH,

We have hereunto set our hands, at Racine, in JOSEPH M. DIETRICH.

